IHS Markit partners with FinTech Studios to deliver real-time market intelligence

By Gaia Lamperti

Today, IHS Markit announced an alliance with AI-based marketplace FinTech Studios to deliver highly-relevant market intelligence, research and analytics within thinkFolio, the firm’s multi-asset investment management platform.

FinTech Studios uses a powerful artificial intelligence (AI) engine, Apollo.ai, to curate content that is relevant to users’ investment universe of interest. The industry‑leading intelligence app has been integrated into the platform thinkFolio to provide enhanced, real-time decision support and discovery features to portfolio managers, traders and other cross-functional users. Information is delivered contextually alongside users’ investment exposure data and active orders, so they can manage their portfolios and consume timely company and industry news and market data on the same platform and via a single workbench.

The AI engine collects information from millions of public and premium sources, including news, research, social media, blogs, regulatory, corporate and industry outlets. Information is indexed, tagged and translated from 42 languages to support discovery, analysis, research and idea generation. The platform is delivered as a managed service, supporting investment firms that want to reduce costs, maximize flexibility, enhance scale, and achieve time-to-market objectives.

The integration with thinkFolio utilizes deep-linking across modular screens to enable users to view the most recent news and financial data related to a specific issuer, industry or asset class. Users can also create customized personal channels that curate content according to their consumption preferences and investment domains of interest.

“The partnership with FinTech Studios brings interoperable, actionable news and market intelligence to thinkFolio clients exactly when and where they need it,” said Brett Schechterman, Managing Director and Global Head of thinkFolio at IHS Markit. “This integration, when accompanied with clients’ proprietary research, will augment thinkFolio’s decision support suite with curated, contextual, real-time insights from a leading-edge information search engine and will help to drive further user productivity and efficiency.”

The new partnership fits into thinkFolio’s strategy of interoperability, to provide clients with the option of leveraging an ecosystem of complementary third-party solutions to supports clients throughout the investment lifecycle, from portfolio construction and pre-trade risk analytics to post-trade operations and performance attribution.

Earlier this year, IHS Markit formed another strategic alliance with CloudAttribution to integrate their performance attribution capabilities into the thinkFolio investment management platform. The partnership enabled mutual clients of thinkFolio and CloudAttribution to bring performance attribution to their desktops and to flexibly evaluate portfolio performance for a variety of cross-asset institutional investment strategies, including ESG.

“Sound investment management is driven by informed decision-making and idea generation,” said Jim Tousignant, CEO at FinTech Studios. “With this integration, we can bring our acclaimed AI-based information and intelligence solution to thinkFolio clients worldwide and ensure that front-office users can access the real-time news and financials that are directly relevant to their investment universe of interest and augment their in-house research and decision support content.”

FinTech Studios artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) technology deliver the world’s most advanced knowledge graph, real-time market intelligence, regulatory intelligence and big-data analytics integrating millions of curated global sources in real-time in multiple languages.